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Unit Head Mailing 12-09-08
- Process for Travel Expense Re-imbursement
- Academic Majors Fair 2009
- Greater Grand Rapids Community Sustainability Partnership (CSP)
- Surviving Auschwitz: Children of Shoah
- W09 Unit Head List
- New Support for Student Travel
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1. Process for Travel Expense Reimbursement
The following information is from Joe Godwin.
Accounting has been having discussions about the varied processes for reimbursement of travel expenses by the Centers that make faculty travel grants. Some request journal entries which require a different process and approvals than others who request working budget transfers which is a more streamlined process. A working group of accountants, budget folks, and representatives from PFTLC, PIC, OMA, and R&D developed the procedure below in Italics. Please send this procedure to appropriate folks in your units.
In order to streamline the reimbursement process for faculty travel and to accurately reflect travel expenditures for each department, we are implementing the following procedure which is current practice for most.
Effective January 2, 2009, all expenditures for faculty travel that are subsidized by an internal GV grant or award will be initially charged to the faculty's home department. The original travel and expense form along with the original receipts will be submitted by the home department to the Travel Desk for processing.
The home department will forward requests for reimbursement to the unit(s) granting the funding (e.g. R&D, Pew FTLC, Padnos International, etc.) who will make a timely reimbursement via a working budget transfer adjustment to CSSM budget pool account code 7001. For reimbursement, all travel and expense form copies will be clearly marked "Copy" and distributed to the funding departments.
The only exception to this procedure will be travel awards associated with a R&D RESEARCH grant which will continue to be submitted and charged directly to R&D. If you want to clarify if your R & D grant falls into this research category, please call Jean Moseler at x12281.
2. Academic Major Fair 2009 (attachment)
3. Greater Grand Rapids Community Sustainability Partnership (CSP)
Good morning Deans!
Please I wanted to be sure and draw your attention to the upcoming Greater Grand Rapids Community Sustainability Partnership (CSP) Summit meeting on Dec. 17th from 7:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the GVSU Eberhard Center. Check out the agenda for the day . The partnership is composed of Universities, businesses, non-profits, faith-based organizations, and hospitals. Membership is over 160 at this point, and GVSU is one of the founding members of this partnership.
We are fortunate to have both Mayor Heartwell of Grand Rapids and Mayor Al McGeehan of Holland share their thoughts about municipal and community sustainability initiatives and programs.
During the morning we will also hear about specific Grand Rapids sustainability activities, the West Michigan Sustainable Purchasing Consortium, and regional sustainability efforts as well.
Please pass this information along to whomever you feel may be interested. Thanks!
Steve Glass, Ph.D. FACSM
Associate Dean, College of Interdisciplinary Studies
4. Surviving Auschwitz: Children of Shoah
As you and your faculty plan for winter semester '09, please share with your faculty and staff the following information: Tova Friedman, one of the women featured in WGVU's documentary, Surviving Auschwitz: Children of the Shoah, will be visiting Grand Valley January 26 through January 29, 2009.
There will be three public showings of the 90 minute documentary for students, faculty, etc. Below are the dates, times and venues:
Tuesday, January 27 6 PM Cook-Dewitt Center, Allendale
Wednesday, January 28 1:30 PM Cook-Dewitt Center
Thursday, January 29 6 PM Loosemore Auditorium, Pew Campus
Immediately following the film Ms. Friedman will address the audiences and there will be an opportunity for the audience to interact with her.
We specifically chose January 2009 for Ms. Friedman's visit as it marks the 64th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Russian army. January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We hope that many at Grand Valley and from the community at large will join us for these special events.
Lest we forget.
Bonnie Marshall, Affiliate Professor, Liberal Studies
Michael Walenta, General Manager, WGVU
5. W09 Unit Head List (attachment)
6. New Support for Student Travel- message from Robert Smart
The Student Senate, in collaboration with the Provost, has established a fund to support student travel to conferences. Beginning in January, undergraduate and graduate students will be able to apply for travel grants through a website now being established. We expect to have $20,000 available for Winter and Spring Summer semesters. Grants will be approved by a committee of faculty and students and administered by Integrative Learning Program in COIS.
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Final Exam Week |
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Final Grades Due from faculty |
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Offices Closed |
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B-4-232 MAK, Pam Kellogg |
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Hey, I'm looking into amateur photography. I am going on a trip to the Philippines for Christmas and I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I was actually looking into the new Nikon D90, but since the recession, i don't know if i can just throw down a g for a hobby besides collecting shoes. hahaha, but anyways. i was looking into anything over the Nikon D60.
somebody help me!!!
how would that saved a lot of money? if it cost like $500 for a d40 and say you going to upgrade to a d90 later on ,which cost $1300 lens included. that basically mean you'll be spending at least $1800( only if you going to upgrade)
my point is if you planning to upgraded i would go big if you can effort it. but if you not sure if you will love photography then go with the d40.


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Josephine Byron chased me all through college. Nobody could figure this out, not her friends, not mine, nor the frat boys who watched her wag across the wide lawns of our school. She was one of those women invariably referred to as striking, a great big get-a-load-of-that: gleaming black hair, curves like a tulip. Snow White refigured, made warmer, more voluptuous. She was also utterly convinced of herself, her good taste in clothing and men, her beauty and intellect, which she unfurled in earnest, vaguely Marxist jeremiads, while the rest of us gazed at her lips. In the dim, yeasty haze of after parties and the stoned vistas of Hope Hill, on the cruddy avenues of our college town, Jo came to me bearing gifts, a fresh-baked loaf of bread, a Mardi Gras necklace, bearing her sly smile and plump white breasts. She let me have my way with her, though I was never quite sure, in the end, she wasn't having her way with me. At night, she kissed my body all over and in the mornings made me omelets. It was like having "Happy Birthday" sung to me each day: ecstatic and deeply disquieting. A few months after graduating I moved to El Paso, where the daily paper needed a clerk. I lived alone, in a basement, and ate fried chicken from boxes. The shower in my place was like being spit on, so I got in the habit of showering at the YMCA, where I swam a few times a week. The lifeguard was a quiet woman who wore clunky glasses and a red Speedo one-piece with a towel wrapped around her lower body. If I stuck around long enough onWednesdays, she took off the towel and led kiddie classes in the shallow end. She was good with the kids, teasing them in Spanish, holding their bellies while they flailed. Her face was round, bookish, somewhat drab. Even without the glasses her eyes seemed far away. But she cut the water like a nymph. I spent hours at the paper, hoping to distinguish myself. I sent Jo long, maudlin letters. I wanted her to love me again. I had been wrong to treat her with such disregard. At dusk, when the sun relented, I wandered El Paso's ragged downtown, wallowing in a sadness I considered sophisticated and insoluble. The plaza was always emptying: vendedores and day maids trudging back to Juárez, the sweet stale scent of lard punching out from El Segundo Barrio, the thrum of swamp coolers fallen away. Later, the smelting plant would fire up its chimneys and smoke would drift over the Franklin Mountains, which shadowed the city like a row of brown shrugs. To the east lay the trim, eerie avenues of Fort Bliss. To the west, the terraced estates of Coronado, where the swimming pools glowed like sapphires. For seven months I handled weddings and obits. Then the pop music critic quit, and the managing editor, lacking other recourse, allowed me to sub. El Paso was, still is, part of the vast spandex-and-umlaut circuit that runs the length of 1-10. I reviewed virtually every one of the late-eighties hair bands at least once: Ratt, Poison, Winger, Warrant, Great White, White Snake, Kiss, Vixen, Cinderella, Queensryche, Skid Row, Def Leppard, Brittney Foxx, and Kiss without makeup. At my first concert, Metallica, the band's new bassist introduced himself to the crowd by farting into his microphone. This was the heavy metal equivalent of a bon mot. Because we were a morning paper, I had to bang out my copy by midnight. I operated on a template involving an initial bad pun, a lengthy playlist?adjective, adjective, song title?and a description of the lead singer's hair. The rest was your standard catalog of puking yayas, flung undies, poignant duets with the rhythm guitarist back from rehab. I loved the velocity of the process: an event witnessed and recorded overnight. I loved the pressure, the glib improvisation; I loved seeing my byline the next day, all my pretty words, smelling of ink and newsprint. And the truth is I loved the shows. I remember standing in the front row as Sebastian Bach, the lead singer of Skid Row, screeched "Youth Gone Wild." Bach was the quintessential metal front man, a blond mane and a pair of cheekbones. He strutted the stage like a drag queen, while the lead guitarist yanked out an interminable solo and the drummer became a shirtless piston. It was formulaic and mercenary and a little pathetic. But when I stared down the row, I saw twenty heads banging in unison, like angry mops. These were kids lousy with the bad hormones of adolescence, humiliated by the poverty of their prospects, and this was their dance, their chance to be part of some larger phallic brotherhood; the notes lashed their rib cages, called out to their beautiful, furious wishes. I'd spoken to the lifeguard a few times, about holiday hours, lane dividers. I imagined having sex with her constantly. I did the same thing with the newsroom prospects, though with the lifeguard it was always more exciting, because we were both almost naked. Her name was Claudia, pronounced in the beautiful Spanish manner, as three distinct, rolling syllables: Cloud-i-ahh. She lived by herself, in an apartment not far from the Y. Every couple of weeks, I took her to some show or another. The idea was that some spark would leap between us. Then we would sneak into the Y, fuck on the squeaky tile, with her bent over a stack of kickboards, or underwater. But she was impossible to read behind her glasses. Our dates were like the ones I had in tenth grade, the tense drive to the mini-golf place, the exhausting formality, the burps unburped. She spoke in the manner of a kindergarten teacher, softly, a bit too clearly, though when she took up Spanish her lisp blossomed and the tip of her tongue danced along her teeth. I felt sure this animation was a sign of some secret life behind her reticence. What were we, exactly? Friends, I suppose. Companions in a certain lonely, postgraduate phase. Markers of time. Besides, there was Jo, beautiful Jo, who called me every other weekend, who seemed to be remaining, in her final year of college, faithful to me, assuredly against the counsel of her friends. And who, true to her word, did appear, just a few weeks after her own graduation, marched up the jetway in red suede boots and nearly tackled me. Everyone just stared. How nice it was to have a beautiful woman tackle me, to feel the eyes of the world upon me again, to have a long, soapy body over which to kvell. And how romantic I made El Paso seem. The plaza! The dollar movies! The oceanic desert! I took her to the lookout point at the top of the Franklins, where we necked and, amid the high schoolers and clumps of creosote, made the sweet foolish talk of love renewed. A few days after she'd flown back East, Jo called. "I bought my ticket," she said. "Your ticket?" "I'm coming out there. To live." There was a pause, during which I tried very hard to recall whether we had discussed this plan, while also recognizing that I was expected to make some perfectly spontaneous sound of approval, thanksgiving, hosanna, and, in fact, even as I grasped this, grasped that I had failed, let the moment pass and would now be held accountable, asked to explain, possibly more than once, why I hadn't, didn't I love her, hadn't I wooed her for a year solid, questions which seemed perfectly reasonable but which I felt incapable of answering because my head was full of pudding. That Sunday I took Claudia to the Metalfest at Bayshore, an artificial lake in the middle of absolutely nowhere, New Mexico. Children tended to drown at Bayshore. No one knew why. The lake was only three feet deep. Heavy metal is an indoor genre. It requires reverberation, darkness, forced proximity. Without these, the crowd loses the sense of itself as a powerful tribe. The elaborate fantasy world of smoke and tinted lights and catwalks just doesn't work on a stage overlooking scrub. The headliner, Jon Bon Jovi, seemed to recognize this. He took one gander at the pallid crowd and began casting about for a trapdoor. His bangs frizzed in the heat; his tights bunched. His falsetto drifted up and away with the dust. The show felt forced, and, in the way of such things, a little sad. Afterward, I drove Claudia back to town. "So anyway," I said, "it looks like that friend of mine from college, Jo, is going to be heading out." Claudia looked down into her lap. "I guess I won't be seeing you as much, then." "Don't be silly," I said. "Why shouldn't I see you?" We hadn't done anything, after all. We were just...whatever we were. "She'll be living with you?" "Yeah. That's sort of the plan." "When's she coming out?" "Next Sunday," I said. There was a difficult pause. Claudia stared out the windshield. The tops of her ears looked tender from the sun. "It doesn't seem fair," she said finally. She glanced at me and smiled a little. "You know, you get something, and I lose a friend." "I don't know why you're saying that," I said. "It's not like that." Claudia called me at work the next day. She wanted to have dinner on Saturday night. "Sure," I said. "Where do you want to go?" She giggled. "Why don't you make me dinner?" Claudia showed up in a black dress and blue eye shadow. Her voice seemed oddly pitched, a bit too exuberant. She gulped at her wine and let the hem of her dress ride up her legs, which looked polished. I didn't have much to say. Nor did she. We were just waiting around for the alcohol to spring our bodies. We moved to the couch, where we leaned and leaned and finally fell against one another sloppily. I slid my chin down her belly. She was so much smaller than Jo, almost delicate, but when her knees slipped behind my head they clamped me so hard my bottom row of teeth bit into the underside of my tongue. I could taste my own blood and this mixed with the slightly acrid taste of her. Gradually, her legs sagged to the bed. Her pelvis vaulted into the air. I followed her up, pressed harder, and suddenly there was a warm liquid coming out of her, a great gout of something sheeting across my cheeks, down my chin, splashing onto the comforter. I figured, at first, she had urinated. But there was simply too much fluid coming out of her. By the time Claudia had regained her wits, and lowered herself to the bed, the puddle on my comforter was two feet across. "Are you okay?" I said. Claudia nodded bashfully and stumbled to the bathroom. My second theory was that, as a lifeguard, pool water had somehow accumulated inside her and been released when her internal muscles relaxed. But the liquid was as tasteless and odorless as rain. And you know what? I was goddamn thrilled. It was such a freakish thing she'd done. Claudia, this quiet little mermaid, with her spectacles and her lisp, with her dull brown eyes, who never so much as touched herself so far as I could tell, had not only surrendered her body to me but expelled, spumed, ejaculated some mysterious orgasmic juice all over my face. I felt like doing a victory lap around the puddle. * * * Jo felt my basement apartment was, as she put it, "the kind of place where a serial killer lives." She needed sun, she explained. And a porch. Our new place was on the fourth floor of a brick building in Sunset Heights, El Paso's historical district. The neighborhood sat on a small rise overlooking the Rio. Locals once had watched Pancho Villa's forces battle federales on the plains below. The view now was of the colonias, the sprawling cardboard cities that enveloped Juárez proper. Our apartment was bright and dusty. Every day a new piece of furniture appeared, or a houseplant. Jo made forays into Juárez, carrying back masks, wall hangings, a black leather whip I hoped to employ in some splendidly incompetent sex game but which was instead suspended tastefully over the divan. The kitchen began to fill with utensils?not just forks and spoons, but garlic presses and salad spinners. With a great, perhaps even vicious, efficiency, Jo erased the vestiges of my bachelordom. Closets became places where clothing was hung. I arrived home one day to find the bed decked out in new colors. Jo wandered in from the other room. "What do you think?" "Nice," I said. "Very colorful." "I knew you'd like it." She hugged me. "It's Guatemalan." I paused. "What happened to my old comforter?" "Salvation Army." "You gave it away?" Jo slipped her hand into one of my back pockets and gave me a playful squeeze. "Don't you like this one? We can give it a test-drive if you're not sure." "Yeah. No. It's nice. I just don't understand why you needed to throw the old one out." "I didn't throw it out, David. I gave it to charity. It had a stain." Jo began unbuttoning my shirt. "What stain?" "A huge disgusting stain. Right in the middle." I felt a fizz in my chest. "Whatever happened to washing?" I murmured. "If you loved the thing so much," Jo said, "you should have washed it yourself." Mostly, though, we had this beautiful new life. We went to a lot of parties. We took road trips along the rambling old highways of New Mexico and stopped in obscure towns for pie. We slept in on Sundays. Sometimes, late afternoon, we would lie in the hammock strung across our balcony and watch thunderheads lip over the Franklins, releasing spindles of lightning. Everything changed when the rains came: the desert turned a rich brown and threw up the mulchy scent of creosote. Boys fluttered like salmon in the flooded gutters below. The slag heaps behind the smelter gave off the dull wet sheen of solder. Over in the colonias, mamas filed out of shanties to wash their children and fill metal drums with drinking water and thank the Lord. Afterwards we listened to the world trickle and waited for the honeyed colors of dusk. With the sky suddenly cleared of smog, we could see all the way to the sierras south of Juárez, which looked like giant bones against the thirsty soil. I took Jo to see Mötley Crüe. Probably it would have been better to start her off on Poison, one of the ballad bands. She kept looking at the front man, Vince Neil. He wore a suit of studded black leather, elevator shoes, a choker. "He's kidding," Jo shouted. "It's a joke, right?" Neil leapt onto a speaker. "How many of you guys are gonna get some fucking poooontang tonight?" The crowd went apeshit. The bass started in, along with the drums; the plastic seats began to quiver. Then a noise like wheels hitting a runway, which meant the guitars, churning down to their appointed chords. Jo looked as if she'd been struck in the back of the head with an eel. I'd given her a pair of earplugs, but the affect of 105 decibels is as much seismic as auditory. Strobe lights popped. Neil howled. His voice was a rapture of violent want, released to the crowd and returned in ululating waves. All around us, skinny boys emptied their bodies of sound. Everything about them banged. Bang bang bang. Their hair whipped the air, their slender arms knifed in around us. I found Jo on the steps outside the arena, head between her knees. "If they could just turn it down a little," she said. "Go ahead and take the car," I said. "I'll catch a ride from the night editor." I figured Jo would be asleep when I got home. But she was sitting up in bed, a towel wrapped around her head. "Feeling better?" I said. "Yeah. How was the rest of the show?" "No big deal. Nikki Sixx flashed the crowd his weenie, so that was pretty cool." Jo took a sip of tea and fixed me with one of her concerned looks. "You don't really like that stuff," she said. I had hoped this might be one of those times where we let our differences be. "You sort of have to get into the spirit of the thing," I said. "What spirit would that be? The spirit of misogynist inner-ear damage?" She shook her head. "You don't like it. You're just being ironic." "Okay," I said. "I'm going to go brush my ironic teeth." "And that singer guy," Jo said. "What a getup. He looked like a piece of bad furniture. What's he supposed to be, some kind of stud? Some kind of big ladies' man?" "It's a show," I said. "Showmanship." "What gets me is that kids are paying money to listen to that crap. It's so indulgent. In a place like this, with so much real suffering." "You shouldn't take it so seriously." Jo waited a beat. "You do," she said. "You spend half your life interviewing these guys and critiquing their shows." 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(Feb. 4, 2010) The Planning Board has put off until next Thursday its vote on a scaled-back version of the Dreamland Theater, as two members said they needed more time to review the proposal.
The plan, already approved by the Historic District Commission, would reduce the size of the new theater's footprint between South Water and Easy streets by about 10 percent, from 9,520 square feet to 8,689, and overall square-footage from about 20,000 to 15,000 square feet, Dreamland officials said.
Other changes include an increase in the size of the open space at the rear of the property and the addition of windows on the ground level of the Oak Street side of the building. Much of the building will now be covered with painted clapboard instead of shingles, which proponents believe is more true to the original Dreamland building which served as a Quaker meeting house.
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COLUMBIA - Missouri cornerbacks coach Cornell Ford remembers what Castine Bridges was like when he began his Missouri career and had to deal with a blow to his confidence after Ford told him that he would not be starting at corner in his junior season.
"Initially, he was kind of patient," Ford said. "I think he wanted to play, but he wasn't ready."
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After transferring from Diablo Valley Junior College, that wasn't what Bridges wanted to hear. But rather than get upset about not starting immediately, Bridges took it as a challenge.
"I think he was a little bothered by it, but he said, 'If I'm not ready yet, I'm just going to work harder,'" Ford said. "He's really turned it on, and he's been a pleasant addition to our secondary."
That's Bridges on the field, an intense competitor who loves to hit people.
His junior college coach, Ralph Depew, said that's the way that Bridges has always been and it's his biggest strength as a player.
"He was a physical corner who got in receivers' faces," Depew said. "He was not like some defensive backs that don't want to touch you, he'd come up and really try to lay the hat to you."
But as tough and intense as Bridges is on opposing receivers, he's never the silent type around his teammates.
"Castine wasn't ever quiet," Depew said, laughing at the notion. "He was one of those players who played with a heaping amount of confidence. I don't know if he was ever silent, but he was certainly strong, certainly was extremely sure of himself and had the ability to back up what he said."
In fact, his current teammates and coaches claim that he loves to joke around whenever the situation warrants, but only when it's not a time to be serious.
"He's a jokester, he's got some of that in him," Ford said. "That's OK, it's OK to have fun every once in a while. On the field, he's all business, which is what we need him to be."
But given Bridges' past experience, it's impressive that he maintains his joking personality at all. Depew said that Bridges grew up in a less-than-ideal neighborhood, and credits Bridges with a great ability to overcome adversity.
"I do know he lost some of his friends to acts of violence when he was a senior in high school," Depew said. "I think he ended up going to a funeral while he was here also. He wasn't always in the greatest of neighborhoods where he grew up."
Depew said that Bridges is very close to his family, citing Bridges' relationships with his mother and brother. Missouri defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus, who recruited Bridges from Diablo Valley, is clearly pleased with the impact that Bridges' family has had on the cornerback.
"Castine's got a great family back there in Richmond, California," Eberflus said. "He's a real nice kid and a kid that's real intense. He chose to come out here a long way from home, and we're certainly proud of that and happy for that."


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Greek Broccoli Slaw Salad
So simple and so delicious next to a piece of grilled chicken dripping with BBQ sauce!"
2 Tbs white wine vinegar
2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
1 bag broccoli slaw mix
1 english cucumber (8" in length), chopped
1/2 pint grape tomatoes, halved
1/4 cup chopped green olives
1/2 cup chopped red onion
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Lake Junaluska offers spiritual enrichment opportunities that will challenge your heart and mind. Attend stimulating lectures, worship services, and seminars to learn and grow stronger in your faith. Many of our workshops and retreats allow time for personal and spiritual reflection in addition to opportunities to connect with others and learn from their spiritual journeys.
April 27-29, 2015
Celebrate being a woman in youth ministry at the Women in Youth Ministry Campference. We will gather with women from all denominations to share our lives in ministry. This is the Youth Cartel's first ever Women in Youth Ministry Campference, where we come together to lock arms, exhale, refresh, and recommit our vital role in the Church for the sake of our students. Read More
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SOULfeast is truly a spiritual feast for all God's people who are in search of rest, renewal, and an authentic experience rooted in the great traditions of the church and the emerging fresh new Christian voices. Read More
July 27-30, 2015
The 2015 Festival of Wisdom and Grace Conference's theme is "Let Each Generation Tell." Led by Dr. Derrick-Lewis Noble, this event will be full of worship, workshops, professional training, and fellowship designed for individuals, couples, small groups, or church leaders relating to the second half of life. Read More
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Join us for a spirited traditional worship service on Sunday mornings at Lake Junaluska in Stuart Auditorium at 10:45 a.m. The Lake Junaluska Singers share inspirational worship music beginning at 10:45 a.m. each Sunday. You won't want to miss our internationally known lineup of guest preachers.Read More
The Lake Junaluska Singers, directed by Dr. Melodie Galloway, are a 14-voice professional ensemble, which serves as the Ambassador choir for the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church and of the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. The group began in 1954 and has performed nationally and internationally for conferences, dignitaries, and major events. Their music ranges from classical choral and contemporary works to gospel, folk and musical theatre styles. Read More
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Women of all ages are invited to join Dr. Lauren Winner for renewal of soul, mind, and body in the beautiful North Carolina mountains. Read More
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Very Cook Plancha-Grill
New from France this twin burner gas barbecue uses a gas-powered flat plate grill that heats to up to 350°C and is perfect for recreating the delights of the post-match burger van at home. Double sausage baps aside it's a serious bit of culinary kit available in 10 cool colours.
Big Green Egg
The barbecue of choice in Michelin starred restaurants – just ask Claude Bosi or Daniel Clifford - this ceramic charcoal bbq design heats quickly, stays hot for hours – one load of charcoal can cook all night - and allows for exceptional temperature control whether grilling or smoking. Available in a range of sizes from mini table top (£399) to XL (£1,250).
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Fornetto Pizza Oven
Take your alfresco cooking to a whole other level with a wood fired oven. The Fornetto can cook pretty much anything your indoor oven can but thanks to the removable woodchip smoker box you can infuse meals – whether you're doing pulled pork, pizza or frozen Chicken Kiev – with authentic smoky flavour.
£895 I BigFire|Buy it now from BBQ Land
Napoleon Travel Q TQ285X
Portable gas barbecues tend to be little more than camping stoves with A-levels, but this impressive design packs in dual burners for direct and indirect cooking, cast iron griddle, thermometer, optional smoker and enough space for 20 burgers and a super tech folding trolley cart.
£339.99 I Garden Eco|Buy it now from Amazon
Morso Mini Forno Outdoor Oven
So handsome we'd gather around it and coo admiringly before it is even lit, the cast iron and teak Mini Forno has a unique grill surface that absorbs the fat and flavourings so meat is grilled in its own juices.
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Undeniably sensible design with three separate charcoal grills so you can light one or all depending on the number of mates who bothered to show up. Also great for keeping meat and veggie options separate and providing all the cooking space you need without dominating the patio.
£199 I BBQ Tower|Buy it now from Amazon
Landmann Grand Tennessee Smoker
Steam engine-resembling BBQ-cumsmoker lets you create classics from pulled pork to slow-and-low-cooked brisket. Slurp.
£350 | Landmann|Buy it now from Amazon
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Grand Hall X Series 2
Built in conjunction with Porsche Design Studio, this costs more than some kitchens. It uses Crossray infrared burner tech, which is 40 per cent more efficient than gas, ensures even heat distribution, locks moisture into food and nom nom nom nom nom, frankly. You also get a built-in rotisserie, electronic instruments and gauges and a counterbalanced hood for some seriously satisfying lid action.
£8,500, grandhall.co.uk, exclusive to Harrods and keengardener.co.uk
Bodum Fyrkat Mini
A somewhat cheaper portable barbie, and one that runs on manly charcoal rather than metrosexual gas, this is available in black, red and lime green. It's just 30cm in diameter – "small enough to fit on a bike but large enough for two steaks," it says here.
Fire pits
Another BBQ innovation that'll keep the neighbours glowering enviously at you is a fire pit. Either dig and line one yourself or, if you don't fancy manual labour, you can buy a metal one. Now, we will grant you that these have a slightly Roman Empire/Third Reich look, but they're great for social cooking and also double as a heat source as the sun goes down, or it suddenly starts snowing.
Hotspot Urban 880 (front), £108, Firepitshop.co.uk; John Lewis stainless steel firepit, £159, Johnlewis.com
City Boy picnic grill
Achingly chic Scandiwegian design by Klaus Aalto makes this gas canister-powered portable in powdered steel the true aesthete's choice. Standing 22cm high, it has a small but perfectly formed grill area of just 18x18cm.
Outback Meteor
Nothing particularly awesome design-wise here, but this four burner gas number is a hell of a lot of barbie for 300 quid, and the red colour is very fetching…
£300 | Outback|Buy it now from Amazon
ProQ Frontier
For great bark – the awesome, caramelised crust on the outside of barbecued meat – melting inner tenderness and ultimate taste, a smoker can't be beat. This porcelain coated artillery shell of a thing has a meat/ fish hanger, and easily topped up water and fuel pans. Also doubles as a standard kettle barbecue.
If you want to keep things really simple, Take this enamelled bucket, add charcoal and light and the result is exquisitely minimalist barbecue chic.


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"It started as a private member bill, but was proposed by the home department about five months ago. We are currently examining it," said a senior official from the minorities development department, on condition of anonymity.
"In a recent meeting, the Christian groups were against the bill," the official added.
Dolphy D'souza, a Catholic activist and former vice-president of the All India Catholic Union, on Thursday, sent a letter to the chief minister, urging him to ensure the bill does not get passed.
"I learned from a highlevel source in the bureaucracy about two weeks ago that the bill was being looked at again. So, I sent a letter to the chief minister and the additional chief secretary of the minorities development department, asking them to ensure that the bill is discarded. Minorities such as Christians are already being harassed by authorities on false accusations of forceful conversions. This will become another tool for harassment," he said, adding that he would ask other groups to start a campaign against the bill soon
Munaf Hakim, chairman of the state minorities commission, said that he was not in favour of the bill.
"After reading the bill, it is clear that it could be a source of harassment. The minorities commission will never support it," said Hakim.
The bill would make official permission from district level authorities necessary for religious conversion.
Activists said it could be used to harass religious groups through false allegations.
The additional chief secretary of the state home department was unavailable for comment.


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Form validation with ASP.NET MVC release candidate 30. January 2009 12:25 / maartenba / ASP.NET . C# . General . MVC / Comments (9) Last week, the ASP.NET MVC framework release candidate was released (check ScottGu's post). Apart from some great new tooling support, form validation has never been easier. Here's a quick introduction. Imagine we have a LINQ to SQL data model, containing an Employee from the Northwind database. As you may know, LINQ to SQL will generate this Employee class as a partial class, which we can use to extend this domain object's behaviour. Let's extend this class with an interface implementation for IDataErrorInfo. [code:c#] public partial class Employee : IDataErrorInfo { #region IDataErrorInfo Members public string Error { get { throw new NotImplementedException(); } } public string this[string columnName] { get { throw new NotImplementedException(); } } #endregion } [/code] IDataErrorInfo is an interface definition that is found in System.ComponentModel. It provides the functionality to offer custom error information that a user interface can bind to. Great, let's do that! Assume we have a view which is used to edit this Employee object. The code for this will be quite easy: some HTML form stuff, Html.ValidationMessage calls, … Here's a snippet: [code:c#] <asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
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 <%= Html.ValidationSummary() %> <% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%> <%= Html.Hidden("id", Model.EmployeeID) %> <fieldset> <legend>Fields</legend>
 LastName: <%= Html.TextBox("LastName") %> <%= Html.ValidationMessage("LastName", "*") %>
  <fieldset> <% } %> </asp:Content> [/code] The controller's action method for this will look like the following: [code:c#] [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection) { Employee employee = repository.RetrieveById(id); try { UpdateModel(employee, collection.ToValueProvider()); repository.Save(employee); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } catch { return View(employee); } } [/code] Nothing fancy here: a call to UpdateModel (to populate the Employee instance with data fom the form) and a try-catch construction. How will this thing know what's wrong? This is where the IDataErrorInfo interface comes useful. ASP.NET MVC's UpdateModel method will look for this interface implementation and retrieve information from it. The Error property that is defined on IDataErrorInfo returns a string containing any error that is "global" for the Employee object. The this[string columnName] indexer that is defined on IDataErrorInfo is used to retrieve error messages for a specific property. Now let's make sure FirstName and LastName are provided: [code:c#] public partial class Employee : IDataErrorInfo { #region IDataErrorInfo Members public string Error { get { return ""; } } public string this[string columnName] { get { switch (columnName.ToUpperInvariant()) { case "FIRSTNAME": if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(FirstName)) return "Please provide a firstname."; break; case "LASTNAME": if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(LastName)) return "Please provide a lastname."; break; } return ""; } } #endregion } [/code] Great, let's try it out. If I omit the firstname or lastname when editing an Employee object, here's what the view looks like: How easy was that! More on the new things in the ASP.NET MVC release candidate can be found in ScottGu's blog post. 184ef48a-aafc-4b48-a3a9-bbc770fcb5a4|2|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
PHPLinq 0.4.0 released on CodePlex! 29. January 2009 12:21 / maartenba / General . LINQ . Personal . PHP . Projects . Zend Framework / Comments (4) I'm pleased to announce that PHPLinq 0.4.0 has been released on CodePlex. PHPLinq is currently one year old, and I decided to add a huge step in functionality for the 0.4.0 release. This blog post will focus on the current status of PHPLinq and what it is capable of doing for you in a PHP project. What is PHPLinq? PHPLinq is a class library for PHP, based on the idea of Microsoft's LINQ technology. LINQ is short for language integrated query, a component in the .NET framework which enables you to perform queries on a variety of data sources like arrays, XML, SQL server, ... These queries are defined using a syntax which is very similar to SQL. Using PHPLinq, the same functionality is created in PHP. Since regular LINQ applies to enumerators, SQL, datasets, XML, ..., I decided PHPLinq should provide the same infrastructure. Here's an example PHPLinq query, which retrieves all names with a length less than 5 from an array of strings: [code:c#] // Create data source$names = array("John", "Peter", "Joe", "Patrick", "Donald", "Eric"); $result = from('$name')->in($names) ->where('$name => strlen($name) < 5') ->select('$name'); [/code] Notice the in()-function? This is basically a clue for PHPLinq to determine how t query data. In this case, PHPLinq will work with a string array, but is perfectly possible to hint PHPLinq with a database table, for example. I'll show you more on that later in this post. This functionality is achieved by the fact that each PHPLinq query is initiated by the PHPLinq_Initiator class. Each PHPLinq_ILinqProvider implementation registers itself with this initiator class, which then determines the correct provider to use. This virtually means that you can write unlimited providers, each for a different data type! What can I do with PHPLinq? Basically, PHPLinq is all about querying data. No matter if it's an array, XML tree or a database table, PHPLinq should be able to figure out what to do witht the data, without you being required to write complex foreach loops and stuff like that. Querying data from an array Let's have a look at an example. The following array will be a dataset which we'll be working with. It is a list of Employee objects. [code:c#] // Employee data source$employees = array( new Employee(1, 1, 5, 'Maarten', 'firstname.lastname@example.com', 24), new Employee(2, 1, 5, 'Paul', 'firstname.lastname@example.com', 30), new Employee(3, 2, 5, 'Bill', 'email@example.com', 29), new Employee(4, 3, 5, 'Bill', 'firstname.lastname@example.com', 28), new Employee(5, 2, 0, 'Xavier', 'firstname.lastname@example.com', 40)); [/code] I would like to have the name and e-mail address of employees named "Bill". Here's a PHPLinq query: [code:c#] $result = from('$employee')->in($employees) ->where('$employee => substr($employee->Name, 0, 4) == "Bill"') ->select('new { "Name" => $employee->Name, "Email" => $employee->Email }'); [/code] Wow! New things here! What's this $employee => … thing? What's this new { … } thing? The first is a lambda expression. This is actualy an anonymous PHP function we are creating, accepting a parameter $employee. This function returns a boolean (true/false), based on the employee's name. The new { … } thing is an anonymous class constructor. What we are doing here is defining a new class on-the-fly, with properties Name and Email, based on data from the original $employee. Here's the output of the above query: [code:c#] Array( [0] => stdClass Object ( [Name] => Bill [Email] => email@example.com ) [1] => stdClass Object ( [Name] => Bill [Email] => firstname.lastname@example.com )) [/code] How cool is that! Things are getting a lot cooler when we use PHPLinq together with the Zend Framework's Zend_Db_Table… Querying data from a database PHPLinq has a second PHPLinq_ILinqProvider built in. This provider makes use of the Zend Framework Zend_Db_Table class to provide querying capabilities. First things first: let's create a database table. [code:c#] CREATE TABLE employees ( Id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, DepartmentId INTEGER, ManagerId INTEGER, Name VARCHAR(100), Email VARCHAR(200), Age INTEGER); [/code] We'll be using this table in a Zend_Db_Table class: [code:c#] // EmployeeTable classclass EmployeeTable extends Zend_Db_Table { protected $_name = 'employees'; // table name protected $_primary = 'Id';}$employeeTable = new EmployeeTable(array('db' => $db));$employeeTable->setRowClass('Employee'); [/code] Allright, what happened here? We've created a database table, and told Zend_Db_Table to look in the employees table for data, and map these to the Employee class we created before. The Zend_Db_Table employee table will be accessible trough the $employeesTable variable. Ok, let's issue a query: [code:c#] $result = from('$employee')->in($employeesTable) ->where('$employee => substr($employee->Name, 0, 4) == "Bill"') ->select('new { "Name" => $employee->Name, "Email" => $employee->Email }'); [/code] Here's the output of the above query: [code:c#] Array( [0] => stdClass Object ( [Name] => Bill [Email] => firstname.lastname@example.com ) [1] => stdClass Object ( [Name] => Bill [Email] => firstname.lastname@example.com )) [/code] Did you notice this query is actually the same as we used before? Except for the $employeesTable now being used instead of $employees this query is identical! The only thing that is different, is how PHPLinq handles the query internally. Using the array of objects, PHPLinq will simply loop the array and search for correct values. Using Zend_Db_Table, PHPLinq actually builds a SQL query which is executed directly on the database server, delegating performance and execution to the database engine. We can have a look at the generated query by setting an option on PHPLinq, which will tell PHPLinq to pass the generated query to PHP's print function. [code:c#] PHPLinq_LinqToZendDb::setQueryCallback('print'); [/code] Let's run the previous query again. The console will now also display the generated SQL statement: [code:c#] SELECT "$employee".* FROM "employees" AS "$employee" WHERE (SUBSTR('$employee'."Name", 0, 4) = "Bill") [/code] Are you kidding me?!? PHPLinq just knew that the PHP code in my where clause translates to the above SQL statement! It's even cooler than this: PHPLinq also knows about different databases. The above example will translate to another query on a different database engine. For that, let's look at another example. Here's the PHPLinq query: [code:c#] $result = from('$employee')->in($employeeTable) ->where('$employee => trim($employee->Name) == "Bill"') ->select('$employee->Name'); [/code] The generated SQL statement in SQLite: [code:c#] SELECT "$employee".* FROM "employees" AS "$employee" WHERE (TRIM('$employee'."Name") = "Bill") [/code] The generated SQL statement in Microsoft SQL Server (only knows LTRIM() and RTRIM(), not TRIM()): [code:c#] SELECT "$employee".* FROM "employees" AS "$employee" WHERE (LTRIM(RTRIM('$employee'."Name")) = "Bill") [/code] I don't know about you, but I think this is very useful (and COOL!) Querying data from an XML source Here's another short example, just to be complete. Let's fetch all posts on my blog's RSS feed, order them by publication date (descending), and select an anonymous type containing title and author. Here's how: [code:c#] $rssFeed = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents('http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/syndication.axd')); $result = from('$item')->in($rssFeed->xpath('//channel/item')) ->orderByDescending('$item => strtotime((string)$item->pubDate)') ->take(2) ->select('new { "Title" => (string)$item->title, "Author" => (string)$item->author }'); [/code] Where to go now? There's lots of other features in PHPLinq which I covered partially in previous blog posts (this one and this one). For full examples, download PHPLinq from www.phplinq.net and see for yourself. By the way, PHPExcel (another project of mine) and PHPLinq seem to be listed in Smashing Magazine's Top 50 list of extremely useful PHP tools. Thanks for this recognition! 628c79cc-5824-436b-8229-2b58926ee359|6|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
TechDays 2009 agenda has been posted! 28. January 2009 12:25 / maartenba / Events . General / Comments (3) Just a quick note: the Belgian TechDays 2009 agenda has been published. You can find it on the TechDays website. Also, Katrien has posted some more details on the agenda on her blog. Hope to see you at the TechDays in Antwerp! 29b500bb-367c-4b56-8c19-51307c3bafb1|1|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
Updated CarTrackr to ASP.NET MVC RC 28. January 2009 08:40 / maartenba / ASP.NET . C# . General . MVC . Personal . Projects / Comments (2) As you may have noticed, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate has been released over the night. You can read all about it in ScottGu's blog post, covering all new tools that have been released with the RC. Since I've been trying to maintain a small reference application for ASP.NET MVC known as CarTrackr, I have updated the source code to reflect some changes in the ASP.NET MVC RC. You can download it directly from the CodePlex project page at www.cartrackr.net. Here's what I have updated (copied from the release notes): Specifying View Types in Page Directives The templates for ViewPage, ViewMasterPage, and ViewUserControl (and derived types) now support language-specific generic syntax in the main directive's Inherits attribute. For example, you can specify the following type in the @ Master directive: [code:xml] <%@ Master Inherits="ViewMasterPage<IMasterInfo>" %> [/code] An alternative approach is to add markup like the following to your page (or to the content area for a content page), although doing so should never be necessary. [code:xml] <mvc:ViewType runat="server" TypeName="ViewUserControl<ProductInfo>" /> [/code] The default MVC project templates for Visual Basic and C# views have been updated to incorporate this change to the Inherits attribute. All existing views will still work. If you choose not to use the new syntax, you can still use the earlier syntax in code. ASP.NET Compiler Post-Build Step Currently, errors within a view file are not detected until run time. To let you detect these errors at compile time, ASP.NET MVC projects now include an MvcBuildViews property, which is disabled by default. To enable this property, open the project file and set the MvcBuildViews property to true, as shown in the following example: [code:xml] <Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"> <PropertyGroup> <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews> </PropertyGroup> [/code] Note: Enabling this feature adds some overhead to the build time. You can update projects that were created with previous releases of MVC to include build-time validation of views by performing the following steps: 1. Open the project file in a text editor. 2. Add the following element under the top-most <PropertyGroup> element: [code:xml] <MvcBuildViews>true</MvcBuildViews> [/code] 3. At the end of the project file, uncomment the <Target Name="AfterBuild"> element and modify it to match the following example: [code:xml] <Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(MvcBuildViews)'=='true'"> <AspNetCompiler VirtualPath="temp" PhysicalPath="$(ProjectDir)\..\$(ProjectName)" /> </Target> [/code] c239acbf-d00d-4f03-9cc9-b248347ec87f|1|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
ECMA-376 implementation notes are out 16. January 2009 17:40 / maartenba / General . OpenXML . PHP . Projects / Comments (1) Last month, Microsoft released the implementation notes for their ODF implementation in Office 2007. These implementation notes are actually the documentation on how Office 2007 treats ODF documents in various cases. Today, Microsoft released the ECMA-376 implementation notes, or in short: they've now documented how Office 2007 handles OpenXML documents. The implementation notes site can be found on www.documentinteropinitiative.org. I am really enthousiast about this one, as it actually documents how Excel will handle files created by PHPExcel. While developing this library, there were certain moments where we really had to dig into what Excel was doing, because something did not work as expected. Now, we will be able to simply check the implementation notes for stuff like this, a huge time saver! You may wonder, what kind of things are mentioned in these implementation notes. I'll give you some examples on SpreadsheetML, as that is the OpenXML format PHPExcel focuses on. Other blog posts by Doug Mahugh and Stephen Peront offer additional insights. Maybe we should add a limit to this in PHPExcel... This means I can now add a new feature to PHPExcel, which of course, will be Excel 2007-only, that automatically picks the correct page scale. This one may actually explain why we are having some issues with PHPExcel, Excel 2007 and negative dates... Conclusion: I like this stuff! No more searching for why things happen: it's really listed in documentation! Thank you Microsoft for not wasting my valuable evening hours trying to figure things like these out. a7270d42-b585-4a7d-8ba6-5392be6d8bc0|2|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
Book review: ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking 14. January 2009 12:25 / maartenba / ASP.NET . Book review . Books . C# . General / Comments (2) Last week, I found another book from Packt in my letterbox. This time, the title is ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking, written by Andrew Siemer. On the back cover, I read that this book shows you how to create a scalable, maintainable social network that can support hundreds of thousands of users, multimedia features and stuff like that. The words scalable and maintainable seem to have triggered me: I started reading ASAP. The first chapter talks about what a social network is and proposes a new social network: Fisharoo.com, a web site for salt water aquarium fanatics, complete with blogs, forums, personal web sites, … The book starts by building a framework containing several features such as logging, mail sending, …, all backed-up by a dependency injection framework to enable fast replacement of several components. Afterwards, each feature of the Fisharoo.com site is described in a separate chapter: what is the feature, how will we store data, what do we need to do in our application to make it work? A good thing about this book is that it demonstrates several concepts in application design using a sample application that anyone who has used a site like Facebook is familiar with. The concepts demonstrated are some that any application can benefit from: Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Design (TDD), Dependency Injection, Model-View-Presenter, … Next to this, some third-party components like Lucene.NET are demonstrated. This all is very readable and understandable, really a must-read for anyone interested in these concepts! Bottom line of the story: it has been a while since I was enthousiast about a book, and this one clearly made me enthousiast. Sure, it describes stuff about building a social network, but I think that is only a cover for what this book is really about: building good software that is easy to maintain, test and extend. d21b124d-cb9f-4839-951d-a0f09432fb3d|3|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
Checking username availability with jQuery (screencast) 9. January 2009 08:19 / maartenba / ASP.NET . C# . General . jQuery . MVC . Presentations . Publications . Screencasts / Comments (0) A new screencast has just been uploaded to the MSDN Belgium Chopsticks page. Don't forget to rate the video! Checking username availability with jQuery Abstract: "This screencast explains how to use jQuery and the ASP.NET MVC framework to quickly add a username availability checker to a user registration page." 54341e29-5000-4ee0-8793-f86c1dd6d518|3|3.7|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
Verifying code and testing with Pex 6. January 2009 12:25 / maartenba / C# . Debugging . General . Testing / Comments (8) Earlier this week, Katrien posted an update on the list of Belgian TechDays 2009 speakers. This post featured a summary on all sessions, of which one was titled "Pex – Automated White Box Testing for .NET". Here's the abstract: "Pex is an automated white box testing tool for .NET. Pex systematically tries to cover every reachable branch in a program by monitoring execution traces, and using a constraint solver to produce new test cases with different behavior. Pex can be applied to any existing .NET assembly without any pre-existing test suite. Pex will try to find counterexamples for all assertion statements in the code. Pex can be guided by hand-written parameterized unit tests, which are API usage scenarios with assertions. The result of the analysis is a test suite which can be persisted as unit tests in source code. The generated unit tests integrate with Visual Studio Team Test as well as other test frameworks. By construction, Pex produces small unit test suites with high code and assertion coverage, and reported failures always come with a test case that reproduces the issue. At Microsoft, this technique has proven highly effective in testing even an extremely well-tested component." After reading the second sentence in this abstract, I was thinking: "SWEET! Let's try!". So here goes… Getting started First of all, download the academic release of Pex at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Pex/. After installing this, Visual Studio 2008 (or 2010 if you are mr. or mrs. Cool), some context menus should be added. We will explore these later on in this post. What we will do next is analyzing a piece of code in a fictive library of string extension methods. The following method is intended to mimic VB6's Left method. [code:c#] ///  /// Return leftmost characters from string for a certain length ///  /// <param name="current">Current string</param> /// <param name="length">Length to take</param> /// <returns>Leftmost characters from string</returns> public static string Left(this string current, int length) { if (length < 0) { throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("length", "Length should be >= 0"); } return current.Substring(0, length); } [/code] Great coding! I even throw an ArgumentOutOfRangeException if I receive a faulty length parameter. Pexify this! Analyzing this with Pex can be done in 2 manners: by running Pex Explorations, which will open a new add-in in Visual Studio and show me some results, or by generating a unit test for this method. Since I know this is good code, unit tests are not needed. I'll pick the first option: right-click the above method and pick "Run Pex Explorations". A new add-in window opens in Visual Studio, showing me the output of calling my method with 4 different parameter combinations: Frustrated, I scream: "WHAT?!? I did write good code! Pex schmex!" According to Pex, I didn't. And actually, it is right. Pex explored all code execution paths in my Left method, of which two paths are not returning the correct results. For example, calling Substring(0, 2) on an empty string will throw an uncaught ArgumentOutOfRangeException. Luckily, Pex is also there to help. When I right-click the first failing exploration, I can choose from some menu options. For example, I could assign this as a task to someone in Team Foundation Server. In this case, I'll just pick "Add precondition". This will actually show me a window of code which might help avoiding this uncaught exception. Nice! It actually avoids the uncaught exception and provides the user of my code with a new ArgumentException thrown at the right location and with the right reason. After doing this for both failing explorations, my code looks like this: [code:c#] ///  /// Return leftmost characters from string for a certain length ///  /// <param name="current">Current string</param> /// <param name="length">Length to take</param> /// <returns>Leftmost characters from string</returns> public static string Left(this string current, int length) { // <pex> if (current == (string)null) throw new ArgumentNullException("current"); if (length < 0 || current.Length < length) throw new ArgumentException("length < 0 || current.Length < length"); // </pex> return current.Substring(0, length); } [/code] Great! This should work for any input now, returning a clear exception message when someone does provide faulty parameters. Note that I could also run these explorations as a unit test. If someone introduces a new error, Pex will let me know. More information More information on Pex can be found on http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Pex/. cbeb99ad-3f3c-4770-be90-506a2a663678|3|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :
Seven things you didn't know about me 5. January 2009 17:51 / maartenba / General . Personal / Comments (0) Seems 2009 is starting off with yet another round of tagging people. Back in 2007, I already had to write five things about myself. Since we are now two years further, I guess each year asks for another extra item to be added. Thank you Michelangelo for making me write another post. Here goes, seven things you may not know about me: The first programming language I used was Visual Basic 4. Back then, it was distributed on 4 gray 3.5" floppy disks. I was 12 years at this time, and totally interested in anything that had to do with computers and software development. You probably know this one already: I really drink lots of coffee every day. Not sure if this is healthy, but it keeps me going. I also guess this has to do with my favourite quote: "A developer is a machine that converts coffee into code". By the way, black coffee please! I once had my own web development / web hosting company, named Squirrel. The WayBackMachine at Archive.org still knows about this. This is also the main reason I started to learn PHP: most of my customers were expecting PHP applications on Linux hosting, but I also had some ASP.NET customers for who I did ASP.NET development. Somewhere in 2006, I sold 100% of my shares and customers to Uniweb. One of the things I really don't like doing is… sports! Really, no problem for me to do some long walks in a beautiful scenery, but please don't make me do fitness or jogging each day. Sooo boring! One of the sports I do enjoy is skiing, which I have been doing each year since I was 5. Since 3 years, I'm going to Pitztal, Austria. This ski resort features cosy Austrian hotels and après-ski, as well as a not too crowded glacier where the slopes are located. I work for RealDolmen, one of the biggest IT players in Belgium. I'm located at a customer's office in the Netherlands since 2 years and a half now, four days per week. The fifth day is mostly for delivering various trainings to our junior employees, to work on Visual Studio Team System solutions, to drink more coffee, … This year (and pobably next year too) will be the year where me and my girlfriend finally will be constructing our house! We'll do lots of things ourselves, so perhaps I should start a DIY (do-it-yourself) blog too, later this year. I started a micro-blog on Twitter about a month ago.I guess it's a good channel if you want to learn more about me. Since almost everyone I know in PHP land has been tagged, let's also tag some people outside PHP land: Julien Hanssens Katrien De Graeve Kristof De Causemaeker Doug Mahugh Geert Verhoeven Julien Chable Here are the rules if you are tagged: Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog. Share seven facts about yourself in the post - some random, some wierd. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter. 69ee3bb6-172e-47be-8f96-e1a702f9477f|1|5.0|96d5b379-7e1d-4dac-a6ba-1e50db561b04 Tags :


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Hitch Linux Live CDForum: Linux Āand Free Software Topic: Hitch Linux Live CD started by: monica Posted by monica on Mar. 09 2007,22:50
Hi everybody,I'd like to let you know that is now available the Hitch Linux Live CD which include Celtx. Hitch is a complete working environment for screenwriters completely self contained and based on DSL. It includes a complete desktiop, Gaim, Firefox, Rox, Celtx, a script library of 100 titles in .pdf format, and more., all in a 100mb Mini CD Right now, I uploaded the spanish version only. It can be downloaded from the following link. < http://www.alucine.com.mx/hitch/ > You can also visit the hitch forum and give us feedback at < http://www.alucine.com.mx/forum/index.php > English and Italian version will be ready soon. Thanks to the Celtx team for this great software. Enjoy it. Posted by humpty on Mar. 11 2007,15:18
please post again when english version done :-]


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The Food Safety Interactive Activities/Lesson Plans are a component of the RI Food Safety Partnership Food-Safe School program, a collaboration between Kids First, RI Healthy Schools! Healthy Kids! (Joint initiative of the RI Departments of Education and Health Coordinated School Health Program), and the University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension. Bridge Communications is our specialty partner for the food safety interactive activities. The project is funded with a multi-year grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Bridge Communications, a Michigan based company, headed by Alice R. McCarthy, Ph.D partnered with Kids First to create the interactive activities/lesson plans. The lesson plans are available on the Kids First website and are a component of the CDC Food-Safe School Action Guide.
Dr. McCarthy is a nationally known civic leader, educator, and writer. She completed research related to parent and teacher satisfaction in a national health curriculum, Health 'n Me, in 2000-2001. Dr. McCarthy reviewed food safety curricula from the National Agricultural Library, Michigan Department of Education, the University of Rhode Island, and the CDC to determine which materials were to be used in the interactive activities. The interactive activities were pilot tested in RI and NH schools by Kids First.
Alice McCarthy, Ph.D. President - Bridge Communications Jessica Williams, Chef and Nutritionist - Kids First Elizabeth Bugden, RI School Food Safety Specialist - Kids First Laureen Motloch, Assistant to President - Bridge Communications Midge Sabatini, - RI Department of Education And The Teachers and Students in RI and NH Schools who pilot tested the lessons!
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Jae Lee mega art post: 39 covers and one incredible pin-up
Jae Lee has been bringing intense style and an infrequently felt sense of foreboding to comics for almost 20 years. A step away from the god-like action poses comics are known for, Lee's characters are consistently grounded with sense of menace and importance. You need look no further than his cover work to see this. Not relying on exaggerated anatomy and skewed perspectives, he's left us with expressionless yet eerily emotive cinematic stills again and again. Check out a huge collection of his work below.
Wolverine Vol.4 (2010)
Hulk and Thing: Hard Knocks (2004)
Dark Reign: Mister Negative (2009)
Namor: The First Mutant (2010)
Widow Maker (2010)
Deadpool: Pulp (2010)
Incredible Hulk #82 (2005)
Batman: Gotham Knights (2004)
Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (2009)
Heroic Age: X-Men #1 (2010)
Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men #1 variant(2009)
The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
A Dark Tower Novel by Stephen King.


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"Excellent Historical Mystery"
This is the second CJ Sansom I have read or listened to. (I read Dissolution because I abhore abridged and that's all Audible had of that title.) I really enjoyed the historical accuracy and setting - the author is a historian. Highly recommended if you like period mysteries. If you have to have a gun battle every five minutes, they are probably not your cup of tea.
"He's missed the point"
The judge fails to realize that by creating an alliance with government he is actually reducing religious freedom rather than enhancing it. What he, and others of the same persuasion want, is really to force his particular brand of religion on everyone. The danger is that political promotion of any religion will also trivialize it. His point of view is very dangerous for religious beliefs. I recommend the book not for his view but as a revelation of the ignorance and callous disregard for true religious beliefs his book promotes.